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1945 in the United States
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1920s  1930s  – 1940s –  1950s  1960s
Years: 1942 1943 194419451946 1947 1948
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(1912 – 1959)

Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II ends this year following the surrender of Germany in May and Japan in September.

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Events

January

February

March

April

April 12: FDR dies in office; Harry S. Truman becomes President

May

June

July

August

September

  • September 2 – World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanerse delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (but in Japan August 14 is recognized as the day the Pacific War ended).
  • September 2 – Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders to Filipino and American forces at Kiangan, Ifugao.
  • September 5 – The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in numerous spy rings in North America: both in the United States and in Canada.
  • September 5 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose", is arrested in Yokohama.
  • September 8 – American troops occupy southern Korea, while the Soviet Union occupies the north, with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea.
  • September 9 – The first actual case of (a computer) bug being found, is a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing events

  • World War II ends with the surrender of Germany on May 8, and Japan on September 2.

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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